The situation is likely to be the same for one of the final 20 cities vying for Amazon’s HQ2 as they hope to replicate Seattle’s economic boom. That’s according to a report from Apartment List, which analyzed how rents in the top contending cities would be affected if Amazon moved in.

Apartment List gathered data — including vacancy rates, median income, and median rent, as well as housing development and rent increases from 2005 to 2015 — for 16 American cities in the running. They used this data to project how HQ2 could change annual rent growth and then calculated the expected additional cost to renter households over a 10-year period.

The study looks at the metro level, so Newark, New Jersey, and New York City, are broadly considered the New York metro area and Montgomery County and Northern Virginia are part of the Washington, DC, metro. Read More Here